Creator
William Kissam Vanderbilt
Title
“West Made East With the Loss of a Day”
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Privately printed by Edmund Garrett
Date
(1933.)
Subject
First edition, number 46 of 200 specially bound copies.
Description
Inscribed. Quarto, original half blue levant morocco gilt over stamped boards, the upper cover with a motif of the Alva's flag, illustrated endpapers. Rives/BFK paper. Illustrated with 7 plates by William Belanske, 169 photographs, 13 charts and calligraphic end-papers. Between 1928 and 1929, Vanderbilt circumnavigated the world on a retrofitted French warship, collecting specimens of invertebrate and marine life and birds and cultural artifacts.
Relation
From the collection of Alexander Westphal